Example sentences of "be a few weeks " in BNC.

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1 up till the age of , about sixteen , after my birthday , the baby would have been a few weeks old , I thought well , if you 're under sixteen , do n't think about the Pill , they 're not going to give it to you .
2 They only buy them from discount houses , and then only after the bills are a few weeks old .
3 ‘ I 'll only be a few weeks late .
4 It would be a few weeks convalescent leave for the woman , and Bodie already had ideas as to how to help her spend the time .
5 It 'll be a few weeks and several meetings before it has established an official position .
6 It will be a few weeks and several meetings before it has established an official position .
7 Erm , I 'm not absolutely certain , I ai n't got the keys , I mean we 're waiting for the mortgage to that 's just being decided , draw the contracts after the exchange and er all that lark , but it will be a few weeks .
8 My mam 'd er well not m my mother all the mams , would be sitting there with the kids with their feet in the water to get used to it even when they were a few weeks old .
9 Yeah but it 's a few weeks yet though .
10 The rheidity of ice is a few weeks , that of salt about a year , but igneous rocks will only exhibit rheid flow after a stress has been applied for hundreds of years , in the case of deeply buried rocks subject to elevated temperatures , or tens of thousands of years for rocks at the surface .
11 All she needs is a few weeks of expert tuition . ’
12 He was a few weeks short of his fiftieth birthday , a somewhat elderly junior minister .
13 Nineteen sixty one , er , our anniversary was a few weeks ago , twenty one years we 've been married , but er
14 It was a few weeks after his marriage and Stephen had been feeling unsure of himself , unsure of life itself .
15 She was n't booked with us , she was a few weeks early , and that 's why I could n't bring her to mind straight away . ’
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